ROSINA BUCKMAN RETURN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18758, 11 January 1923, Page 2

ROSINA BUCKMAN RETURN

THREE CONCERTS IN DUNEDIN. Mr E. J. Gravestock announces (hat the famous singers. Miss Rosina Backman and Mr Maurice D’Oisly, will commence a farewell season in His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday, January 20. Concerts will also bo given on Monday, January 22, and Wednesday, January 24. Those concerts will bo in the nature of “popular” concerts, the programmes consisting partly of “request” numbers. The famous prinia donna and tier talented husoand have just completed aa extremely successful lour of Australia, where no fewer than 50 concerts wore given bollnro audiences totalling nearly a hundred thousand people. On the arrival of Miss Ruckrnan in Australia the Sydney Evening News said: “The coming of Rosina Buckman is a mutter for great pleasure for two reasons—first, she is one of the world's greatest singers, and her advent is a compliment to our patronage of the art; and, secondly. Miss Buckman was born at (his antipodean end of the world, and, next to Dame Nellie Melbu, she is the greatest singer we have contributed to the theatres and concert platforms of England and Europe. What Melba has done for Australia Rosina Buckman has done for New Zealand.” Miss Buckman has several European engagements ahead, including a season of opera at Do Scala, in Milan, and the time at her disposal is limited. 'Jlireo concerts only will he given in Dunedin. The duets from standard opera, sung :n English by Miss Buckman and Mr D’Oisly, will again bo a feature of the programmes. At the first concert on Saturday week the distinguished singers will be heard in the famous “Garden Scone” duct from the great opera “Boris Goudonnv,’’ by the Russian composer Modesto Moussorgsky. As before the associate artists will be Miss Adolo Leon, whoso cello playing delighted New Zealand audiences, and Mr Percy Kahn, the talented composer and pianist. The box plans for the three concerts will be opened at The Bristol Piano Company pn Wednesday, January 17,